Finally! Recognition
February 20, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Finances, Mental Health
Ok, you might be a little forgetful and feel a bit lost while you lactate and/or get up in the night with your newborn, but those milk fuzzies are temporary.
According to the article Giving Birth to Supermom in Sunday’s Globe and Mail, scientists are finally discovering what women have suspected for years: being a mother does make you more focussed, more organized and even more intelligent.
Note: Special thanks to Sarah who caught this article a timezone ahead of me. Especially embarrassing since I occasionally write for the Globe and Mail technology section.
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[...] You may remember my post about study results that showed motherhood makes women smarter, more focussed and more productive. You would think business and industry would want to capitalize on this pool of intelligence, but there are some disturbing examples of the opposite. Ericsson, in particular, recently offered voluntary buy outs to 1000 of its Swedish workforce ages 35 to 50. The company plans to replace those people of prime parenting age with 900 workers under 30. Which got me thinking: are older workers so inflexible that the technology industries need to replace their employees at the first sign of gray hair? So, I thought about how my own mother has gone from completely unaware of technology altogether, to using it in her professional life. Then, I found some other stories about equally inspiring women who overcame technophobia for my Globe and Mail Technology column. The results are good for mothers and probably bad for short-sighted companies like Ericsson. It appears I am not the only one whose research shows mothers have quite a lot to contribute to the workforce. Statscan, the government body that measures social trends in Canada, reported that the number of working women over 25 increased by 1.5%. In contrast, the number of working men increased by just 0.2%. [...]
[...] You may remember my post about study results that showed motherhood makes women smarter, more focussed and more productive. You would think business and industry would want to capitalize on this pool of intelligence, but there are some disturbing examples of the opposite. Ericsson, in particular, recently offered voluntary buy outs to 1000 of its Swedish workforce ages 35 to 50. The company plans to replace those people of prime parenting age with 900 workers under 30. Which got me thinking: are older workers so inflexible that the technology industries need to replace their employees at the first sign of gray hair? So, I thought about how my own mother has gone from completely unaware of technology altogether, to using it in her professional life. Then, I found some other stories about equally inspiring women who overcame technophobia for my Globe and Mail Technology column. The results are good for mothers and probably bad for short-sighted companies like Ericsson. [...]